The "For Portlanders Only" Update Thread

[ClassicTVMan1981]

I've never heard of such a thing. There were "on location" episodes of Ramblin Rod, but they were in malls.

Peter,

I am hoping some of those episodes have survived in tape-trading.

~Ben

 

[ClassicTVMan1981]

Hi Peter,

I found this 1992 Ramblin' Rod episode... it contains a rerun of the October 11, 1990 episode of The Merrie Melodies Show Starring Bugs Bunny & Friends! This episode is among a handful not to have a "Hip Clip" before the third and final segment (in this case, 1939's "Jeepers Creepers").

During the first half-hour, there is again secondary sponsorship from Arctic Circle, which would see its Portland-area locations rebranded to Arby's by 1994.


~Ben

 

[Chris]

Dying days? My Arctic Circle stayed open until like 2014 or '15 or so...

 

[ClassicTVMan1981]

Dying days? My Arctic Circle stayed open until like 2014 or '15 or so...

Chris,

I fixed it.

I meant to say this was about the AC locations in Portland, at 5136 SE Woodstock Blvd., 3420 SE Hawthorne Blvd. and 8111 SE Foster Rd., as those three became Arby's restaurants by 1994. There are indeed a few ACs left in other parts of Oregon that are still in business to this day.

~Ben

 

[ClassicTVMan1981]

For those of you who have an itching to see what could've been on KGW 8 in the Christmas of '83, here it is... The Christmas That Almost Wasn't, featuring Chuck E. Cheese and his Pizza Time Theatre gang!
Again, most of the special is only available frame-by-frame due to the fact that NBC chose not to air this special for some reason, but it was played at all Chuck E. Cheese's stores.


~Ben

 

[Peter Paltridge]

I went into this in the Misfit Christmas Special page this got, but the reason the special is a slideshow is actually because Kadabrascope lost its funding and had to put out what was completed.

 

[ClassicTVMan1981]

I went into this in the Misfit Christmas Special page this got, but the reason the special is a slideshow is actually because Kadabrascope lost its funding and had to put out what was completed.

Again, because of the video game crash of '83, which ate into not only Chuck E. Cheese's budget but also into Nolan Bushnell's own, that he then resigned from the company. At the time he first established Kadabrascope Animation, he seemed overoptimistic in hoping for bigger money days; he had also established Sente Video Games as well as Zapp's Games, Bar & Grill which was supposed to be like Chuck E. Cheese's but geared more toward adults, but due to the negative financial outlook of Chuck E. Cheese's these other ventures never really took off.

~Ben

 

[ClassicTVMan1981]

I got bored, so I decided to make sheet music from the 1979 video of the KPTV Bugs Bunny & Friends theme song. If you can't read music, I also uploaded a MIDI of what the sheet music sounds like.
http://www.atari2600land.com/kptvbb.mid - the MIDI
http://www.atari2600land.com/kptvbbsheet.pdf - the sheet music.

Hi Chris,

The actual name of the song used for KPTV's Bugs & Friends theme is "Piggie Woogie" by The Zeet Band, released on their 1970 album Moogie Woogie (the song was even released as a B-side single!).

Hence, the instrument used is a Moog modular synthesizer -- same as what was played by, among others, The Monkees (on "Daily Nightly"), The Beatles ("Here Comes the Sun") and Emerson, Lake & Palmer ("Lucky Man," "From the Beginning," "Tarkus Suite," "Karn Evil 9 Suite" and various others).

Here's The Zeet Band's original cut:


And here's the 1980 intro (which lasted until 1990) to Bugs & Friends with "Piggie Woogie," while I wait for the 1979 version to re-appear somewhere:


~Ben

 

[Chris]

Thanks for the info!

 

[ClassicTVMan1981]

Thanks for the info!

Chris,

You're welcome.

~Ben

 

[Chris]

Added this to YouTube:

 

[Chris]

Is it just me or do the Oregon State Fair ads say "Hey, Ohio!"? They should have made that for the Ohio State Fair.

 

[ClassicTVMan1981]

I wonder if The Ramblin' Rod Cartoon Show included The New Yogi Bear Show in its 1988-89 season lineup?


~Ben

 

[ClassicTVMan1981]

How many of you here remember when, on select days, Chuck E. Cheese along with Jasper T. Jowls, Mr. Munch and Pasqually would appear as special guests on Ramblin' Rod's show and sing songs to those kids having their birthdays?

My question is this: did they first begin doing this in 1983, the first year the Ramblin' Rod Cartoon Show had sponsorship from Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre?

~Ben

 

[Peter Paltridge]

How many of you here remember when, on select days, Chuck E. Cheese along with Jasper T. Jowls, Mr. Munch and Pasqually would appear as special guests on Ramblin' Rod's show and sing songs to those kids having their birthdays?

My question is this: did they first begin doing this in 1983, the first year the Ramblin' Rod Cartoon Show had sponsorship from Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre?

~Ben

I have half an episode from 1985 and a full one from 1988. I don't know if there was one in the 1985 episode, but they do appear and sing in the 1988 one, so it at least goes back that far.

 

[ClassicTVMan1981]

I have half an episode from 1985 and a full one from 1988. I don't know if there was one in the 1985 episode, but they do appear and sing in the 1988 one, so it at least goes back that far.

Thank you!

~Ben

 

[Chris]

I found this. I had to erase the copyrighted songs, but it's (mostly) there. Help me if I actually tried to upload the cartoons. Oh well.

 

[Peter Paltridge]

How many of you here remember when, on select days, Chuck E. Cheese along with Jasper T. Jowls, Mr. Munch and Pasqually would appear as special guests on Ramblin' Rod's show and sing songs to those kids having their birthdays?

My question is this: did they first begin doing this in 1983, the first year the Ramblin' Rod Cartoon Show had sponsorship from Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre?

~Ben

Following this up further...I recently found a recording that answers your question. I found a full RR from 1984 and ten minutes of one from 1983, and those ten minutes include the Chuck E Cheese cast. Rod says "wow, you guys get better at this every time!" which implies it's one of the first.

 

[ClassicTVMan1981]

Following this up further...I recently found a recording that answers your question. I found a full RR from 1984 and ten minutes of one from 1983, and those ten minutes include the Chuck E Cheese cast. Rod says "wow, you guys get better at this every time!" which implies it's one of the first.View attachment 314555

Links to those two, please?

Thank you,



Ben

 

[Peter Paltridge]

Links to those two, please?

Thank you,



Ben

There aren't any....I found them on a tape from Goodwill, not YouTube.